← Back to context Comment by barrkel 5 years ago Function names are comments, and have similar failure modes. 3 comments barrkel Reply gilbetron 5 years ago Comments that are limited to only a 2 or 3 dozen characters at most, so worse than comments ime. nojokes 5 years ago You can put your prose at the top of the function if you really need to explain it more. :) ric2b 5 years ago But it's easier to notice they're outdated, because you don't see them only when looking at the implementation.
gilbetron 5 years ago Comments that are limited to only a 2 or 3 dozen characters at most, so worse than comments ime. nojokes 5 years ago You can put your prose at the top of the function if you really need to explain it more. :)
nojokes 5 years ago You can put your prose at the top of the function if you really need to explain it more. :)
ric2b 5 years ago But it's easier to notice they're outdated, because you don't see them only when looking at the implementation.
Comments that are limited to only a 2 or 3 dozen characters at most, so worse than comments ime.
You can put your prose at the top of the function if you really need to explain it more. :)
But it's easier to notice they're outdated, because you don't see them only when looking at the implementation.